Mega-Dams in Malaysia, Honduras, Turkey and Brazil

With June Rubis from SAVE Rivers (Malaysia), Jutta Blume (CADEHO, JournalistInnendelegation) and Heike Drillisch and Christian Russau. Organized by INFOE, GegenStrömung, FDCL, KoBra and urgewald.
  • Wann 14.08.2013 23:00 bis 15.08.2013 01:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
  • Wo Berlin
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Baram in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo – the Agua Zarca Dam, District Intibucá, Honduras – Ilisu in Turkey – Belo Monte in Brazil: The event will focus on mega-dams built and planned in Malaysia, Turkey and Brazil - and the resistance against these dams.

SAVE Rivers is a coalition of indigenous organizations, and affected communities and focuses on stopping the mega-dam in Baram (Sarawak highlands). She has worked on their advocacy campaign, and assisted in mobilizing communities by giving talks in the affected rural areas.
June RUBIS has over ten years of conservation experience in Borneo, with a background in wild orang utan research. She currently works for LEAP (Land Empowerment Animals People) as Manager, Civil Society Initiatives & Wildlife Conservation. For the past couple of years, she has focused on indigenous organizing and advocacy, and youth and women's rights. She has worked with the indigenous coalition, SAVE Rivers, in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, fighting to stop the twelve mega-dams in the state.
Background information about the Agua Zarca Dam in Hoduras you can find at International Rivers, about Ilisu at GegenStrömung and about Belo Monte at GegenStrömung as well.

Entrance: free of charge